Day 188 - October 2019 Yazz Update

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Highlights for October 2019 are:

• Mailing list grew to 491 subscribers, so just over 10% in the last month
• We dumped Electron as the package size was too big when running in containers, and also because Sqlite was just a pain to compile in Desktop Electron environments
• Following our last major release, VisualJS, the latest version is now called Pilot, to fit in better with Nautical naming of Kubernetes products (see Helm, etc)
• We now have an app on the Ubuntu Snap store, just "snap install --devmode --edge pilot". This should give an easy route to desktop Linux apps today, and Mac and Windows in the future
• The code is open source here: https://github.com/zubairq/pilot
• Simple deployment for Red Hat OpenShift using Deployment templates now available
• Next month's goal is to integrate Pilot better into Kubernetes for quick app development